My favorite quote was "being the first is important, being the best is
irrelevant" (Karp)
Such is life...
M
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:28 -0400, Eric Neumann wrote:
> Ahh, I stand corrected, and probably was confused with the Mark - Larry
> role switching....
>
> Somewhere there was even mention of Thomas Jefferson as well...
>
> Eric
>
> On May 9, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>
> > Indeed - my notes say that it was Mark Musen who was advocating to "let
> > 1000 flowers bloom" :-) while Larry was taking the more conservative
> > track...
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:14 -0600, Larry Hunter wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:53 -0400, Eric Neumann wrote:
> >>
> >>> I seem to remember at an Ontology panel at ISMB last year in Detroit
> >>> you were advocating the Anarchists approach to ontologies.... ; )
> >>
> >> You misremember! I started off by saying how this was going to be the
> >> first time in my entire life that I was going to take the conservative
> >> side of anything.
> >>
> >> Actually, I advocated a democratic process with a central body to
> >> ensure
> >> fairness and good communication, which is pretty much what we ended up
> >> getting with the NCBC. Not that I had anything to do with that
> >> specific
> >> outcome, but I do think it is a very important one to support.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> > --
> >
> > --
> > Mark Wilkinson
> > Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medical Genetics
> > University of British Columbia
> > PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre
> > St. Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
> > Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
> > tel: 604 682 2344 x62129
> > fax: 604 806 9274
> >
> > "For most of this century we have viewed communications as a conduit,
> > a pipe between physical locations on the planet.
> > What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and
> > interesting
> > that communication has become more than a conduit,
> > it has become a destination in its own right..."
> >
> > Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future
> >
> >
>
> Eric Neumann, PhD
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Mark Wilkinson
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre
St. Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
tel: 604 682 2344 x62129
fax: 604 806 9274
"For most of this century we have viewed communications as a conduit,
a pipe between physical locations on the planet.
What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and interesting
that communication has become more than a conduit,
it has become a destination in its own right..."
Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future